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After Bleak Year on Wall Street, Bonuses on the Chopping Block
As Wall Street’s biggest banks prepare to report fourth quarter earnings for 2011, many analysts expect the results to cap off a horrible year — at least by their formerly high-flying pre-recession standards. As a result, …
Survey: Job Market’s Been Bad for Everybody—But Worse for the Less Affluent
Over the last three years, households with incomes of $75,000 and up have experienced a dreary, often harsh employment landscape. In more than one-quarter of these households, someone has lost a job. In nearly half of such …
Same Old Story: Health Insurance Premiums Soar, Yet Again
Haven’t we all heard this one before? The average cost of health insurance premiums rose sharply this year: Family costs are up 9%, topping $15,000 annually for the first time. Over the last 10 years, family premiums have risen …
Ladies, Let’s Gun for That Eight-Figure Salary
So I opened the WSJ online this morning and nearly spat out my decaf:
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid its chairman and chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, about $54 million for 2006, a record for Wall Street bosses who are harvesting their share of bull-market bounty.
Say what? Fifty-four million? Can that be right? According to the …
I Feel Bad About My Paycheck
The New York Times has run two stories on poor billionaires–rich dudes who are sad because other dudes make more than they do.
In a story this morning, Silicon Valley tycoons wax envious about the two YouTube founders’ giant Google payday. One 36-year-old, who scored enough as an exec for PayPal to “retire to a comfortable …
Reindeer Handlers, Unite Against Low Pay
As a journalist, I know from retarded press releases. As a workplace correspondent, though, I’m usually spared the worst of the worst: most of the pitches I get involve employment studies and management books and companies that …
